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Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Species Plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Stockholm: Lars Salvius, 1753. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (200 x 122mm). E6 present as both cancellans and cancellandum, F5 and R2 as cancellans only. (B5-8 and C1 with small tears to upper blank margins, some old dampstaining, occasional browning as usual.) Contemporary calf-backed speckled-paper boards (small splits to joints, some surface damage to paper of boards). Provenance: J.L. Peeters, jnr. (book-label at foot of title).
FIRST EDITION, SECOND STATE, OF WHAT LINNAEUS CONSIDERED HIS "OPUS MAGNUM": "THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORK IN THE WORLD'S BOTANICAL LITERATURE" (Hunt). "Species Plantarum was the first work to account for all the kinds of plants then known in the world, to classify them according to a simple system... by which anyone can determine their identity, and provide for each kind a name of two words. This addition of a binomial system of nomenclature.. to the polynomial system has caused this work to be designated as the starting point for the modern nomenclature of ferns and flowering plants" (Hunt).
There are two issues of the first part of the first edition. The present copy is the second state for which Linnaeus, shortly after the appearance of vol.I in May 1753, revised and reprinted three leaves: E6, F5 and R2. For the purposes of botanical nomenclature this second issue is considered as the definitive edition. However, the present copy also includes the very rare original state of E6. Hulth 89; Hunt 548; Pritzel 5427; Soulsby 480a; Stafleu & Cowan 4769.
Species Plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Stockholm: Lars Salvius, 1753. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (200 x 122mm). E6 present as both cancellans and cancellandum, F5 and R2 as cancellans only. (B5-8 and C1 with small tears to upper blank margins, some old dampstaining, occasional browning as usual.) Contemporary calf-backed speckled-paper boards (small splits to joints, some surface damage to paper of boards). Provenance: J.L. Peeters, jnr. (book-label at foot of title).
FIRST EDITION, SECOND STATE, OF WHAT LINNAEUS CONSIDERED HIS "OPUS MAGNUM": "THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORK IN THE WORLD'S BOTANICAL LITERATURE" (Hunt). "Species Plantarum was the first work to account for all the kinds of plants then known in the world, to classify them according to a simple system... by which anyone can determine their identity, and provide for each kind a name of two words. This addition of a binomial system of nomenclature.. to the polynomial system has caused this work to be designated as the starting point for the modern nomenclature of ferns and flowering plants" (Hunt).
There are two issues of the first part of the first edition. The present copy is the second state for which Linnaeus, shortly after the appearance of vol.I in May 1753, revised and reprinted three leaves: E6, F5 and R2. For the purposes of botanical nomenclature this second issue is considered as the definitive edition. However, the present copy also includes the very rare original state of E6. Hulth 89; Hunt 548; Pritzel 5427; Soulsby 480a; Stafleu & Cowan 4769.